Movies Like Skyjacked
If you liked Skyjacked (1972), a action and drama movie directed by John Guillermin, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Bat★21 (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also action and dramaLt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be…
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United 93 (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thrillerA real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Fast Charlie (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also action and dramaWhen his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.
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The Delta Force (1986)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerA 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite…
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Trap House (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also action and thrillerAn undercover DEA agent and his partner embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves – their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their…
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Uncommon Valor (1983)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and actionA group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
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Stowaway (2022)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerA tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and…
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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
★ 5.9/10Also action and thrillerA group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data…
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Shade (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also action and thrillerTiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game…
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SAS: Red Notice (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and actionAn off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the…
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Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
★ 6.4/10Also action and dramaJohn, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run…
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
★ 7.2/10Also action and dramaIn the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting…
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Dirt (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and actionIn search of a lifeline for his struggling off road racing team, a man takes on a young car thief looking for a second chance, but as their worlds collide, they must struggle to forge a successful alliance.
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Icefall (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also action and thrillerA young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and…
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The System (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also action and thrillerWhen a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
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Captain Phillips (2013)
★ 7.5/10Also action and dramaThe true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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UNABOMBER (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and dramaFollow Ted Kaczynski's transformation from Harvard prodigy into the infamous Unabomber. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray, Kaczynski's troubled past resurfaces decades later…
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Blind Fury (1989)
★ 6.5/10Also action and thrillerA blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
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Lord of the Flies (1990)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerWhen their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.
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Silverton Siege (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also action and dramaAfter a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.